Feldsher - who is this? What is his responsibility?

For sure, every person has faced the word "paramedic" many times in his life. Who is this and what does he do? A paramedic is an employee of a medical institution with a secondary education. He conducts activities to provide first aid and carries out sanitary and anti-epidemic, as well as preventive activities.

Education feldshera

Feldshers prepare medical colleges in which students who come after the ninth grade study for three and a half years, and those who graduate eleven - for twelve months less. Who can be, after graduating from one of these institutions? Students go out with diplomas of ordinary, as well as sanitary feldshers. But that's not all. There are also assistant medical assistants. Many people want to get this specialty. Every paramedic must be educated and competent. Who is this, about even represent the children.

Where can I get a feldsher?

After graduation and practice, the question arises of where to get a job. Where can a paramedic work?

1. In medical institutions. At the same time a more experienced doctor leads a paramedic. He, as a rule, has a higher education.

2. At obstetrical-feldsher points at industrial organizations, at health posts. Here he works independently. In addition, paramedics can be found in the departments and at the emergency stations (there are entire teams formed). In these cases, they are supervised by doctors of district (district) medical institutions, polyclinics, dispensaries. They control their work.

And what does the medical assistant do? Who is it? This is a health worker who is an assistant to a health doctor, parasitologist or epidemiologist. There is nothing complicated, you can remember.

Duties

The paramedic is authorized to perform the following medical actions, while adhering to all the norms of antiseptics and asepsis:

• Overlay ligatures, as well as skin seams (in the event that the patient is injured and bleeds);
• Dissection of phlegmon and abscess;
• Pulling out small foreign bodies, when there is no need to resort to complex tricks.

What else can an employee with a secondary education do? He can take blood from the veins for laboratory tests, determine which group it belongs to, perform compatibility tests when transfusion is necessary. All these actions are made by the paramedic. Who is this, is known to every person who has ever applied to a medical institution.

Also, the paramedic has the right to put injections (in the muscle, vein and subcutaneously); Impose all kinds of tires (medical and transport) and a tourniquet, stopping blood. This specialist has many responsibilities. He also needs to apply and remove bandages (gypsum, as well as soft) and staples. In addition, the paramedic must be able, if necessary, to make artificial respiration and indirect heart massage (through the chest wall); Remove the tooth if the case is simple enough; Rinse the bladder and insert the catheter; To anesthetize by means of novocaine or chloroethyl anesthesia. He also puts compresses, mustard plasters, cans. And what does the paramedic obstetrician do? Who is it? This is a specialist who has the right to take birth. From the name everything is clear.

And a little more about duties

Each paramedic should be able to make wraps (for example, mustard, wet, etc.), rinse the stomach, use a tonometer. Also these specialists put enemas (siphon, medicament, purifying, drip, nutritious). They take the contents of the stomach with probes of different thickness, insert tubes for the removal of gases. Unpleasant, but there's nothing you can do, you have to do it all. Feldshers also take swabs from the rectum, nose, throat for subsequent laboratory tests. As you can see, these specialists do a lot, and only one of them is strictly prohibited - the operation. This can not be done by any paramedic. Who you are, you already know. They can help with diseases of the ear, nose, eyes and throat (they lubricate, remove foreign objects, wash, bury, bandage). They provide first aid for any incidents (injuries, drowning, poisoning, asphyxiation, etc.).

What else should a medical assistant know?

These specialists should know how some procedures are carried out from the field of physiotherapy (irradiation with ultraviolet, a lamp of solux, therapy with UHF, treatment with ozocerite and paraffin). But this is not the whole list of their responsibilities. They need to know how to use the Minin lamp, perform exercise therapy, massage, perform simple manipulations with blood (determine hemoglobin and ESR level), and urine (determine the specific gravity, find out if the protein is present, and if so, what is its content). Many people must have heard the phrase "paramedic laboratory assistant". Who is it? This is a person doing laboratory research.

Some people with this specialty work in hospital canteens. Their duties include making a menu, which includes useful products that contribute to the speedy recovery of patients.